{"id":1834,"date":"2004-10-27T13:21:48","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T17:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2010-07-12T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:33:54","slug":"all-the-way-from-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1834","title":{"rendered":"All the way from Australia &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/timblair.spleenville.com\/archives\/007850.php\">they discuss the Sox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are you the type of fan who keeps the phone lines open during the game so every moment can be picked apart with your friends and family, also watching, but separated by geography?<\/p>\n<p>Or are you the kind of fan who withdraws into solitude, so that you &#8220;may more deeply and harmfully dwell on the fortunes of [your] team&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Tim Blair wants to know.  Tim is the latter kind of fan.  He withdraws.  He &#8220;harmfully dwells&#8221;.  heh heh.<\/p>\n<p>(Some of the comments in that thread, though, were so annoying that I couldn&#8217;t even read further.   &#8220;Kerry&#8217;s from Boston, I hope the Sox lose, they deserve to lose.&#8221;  Yawn.  Boring boring boring.  I can&#8217;t think of anything more uninteresting than seeing EVERYTHING through the filter of which political &#8220;side&#8221; you are on.  Gawd.  Get a life.  Also one of the comments was: &#8220;It&#8217;s <i>Just<\/i> a game, guys &#8230; chill out.&#8221;  Another boring response.)<\/p>\n<p>But back to the question at hand:<\/p>\n<p>I myself keep the phone lines open.<\/p>\n<p>However &#8211; I will not take the call if I know it&#8217;s someone who&#8217;s not watching the game, or unaware of what is going on, OR just calling me to bust on how into the game I am.<\/p>\n<p>I keep the lines open for those who get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; they discuss the Sox. Are you the type of fan who keeps the phone lines open during the game so every moment can be picked apart with your friends and family, also watching, but separated by geography? Or are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1834\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17632,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/17632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}